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Abe Lincoln
He is a great part of history because he helped to free slaves in the United States. He also wrote a very important document called the Emancipation Proclamation which stated that slaves would be freed in confederate territory, not in the north. Abraham Lincoln let slaves become free in 1866 and was the first president to lead the country into war. -
Andrew Johnson
Andrew took over the presidency when Lincoln was assassinated. Vigoriously pushed the Kansas-Nebraska Act. He instigated what became known as the Ostend Manifesto which demanded that Spain either sell Cuba to the US or lose it to a war with the US. After this document became public there was so much public outrage that he had to formally repudiate it. -
Ulysses S. Grant
Include the Enforcement of Civil Rights for African Americans in the Reconstruction states.
Signed the Amnesty Act of 1872
Signed bills that Promoting Black Voting Rights -
Rutherford B. Hayes
Federal troops withdrew from the South ending Reconstruction..
Striking railroad workers and federal troops clashed.
Bland-Allison Silver Purchase Act passed despite Hayes veto. -
James A.Garfield
Emphasized the civil rights of african americans in his inaugural address
Attempted to reestablish the independence of the predsidency
Started the work of Pendelton Civil Service Act -
Chester A. Arthur
Signed the Tariff Act of 1883
Congress passed the Pendleton act
His administration enacted the first general federal imigration law -
Benjamin Harrison
Passed the Sherman Antitrust act
Passed the Dependent and Disability Pensions Act
Passed the Sherman Silver Purchase Act -
Grover Cleveland
Signed an Act creating the Interstate Commerce Commission
Angered railroad investors by ordering an investigation of western lands they held by Government grant
Passed a Bill in 1886 that would require the government to coin unlimited amounts of silver, inflating the then-deflating currency. -
William McKinley
During McKinley's time in office, Hawaii was annexed. McKinley's time in office was important becuase the U.S. officially became a world colonial power. Further, America officially placed its money on the gold standard. -
Benjamin Harrison
While he was in office the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890) came into play.
Also the Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890) was made.
And Electricity Installed in White House (1891) -
Theodore Roosevelt
In 1907, Roosevelt made an agreement with Japan known as the Gentleman's Agreement whereby Japan agreed to slow the immigration of laborers to America and in exchange the U.S. would not pass a law like the Chinese Exclusion Act.
From 1904-05, the Russo-Japanese War occurred. Roosevelt was the mediator of the peace between the two countries. Due to this, he won the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize -
William Howard Taft
Taft continued to enforce antitrust laws. He was key in bringing down the Standard Oil Company in 1911. Also during Taft's term in office, the sixteenth amendment was passed that allowed the U.S. to collect income taxes. -
Woodrow Wilson
During his presidency the Treaty of Versailles (1919) came about.
Eighteenth Amendment ratified prohibiting alcoholic beverages (1919) during his time in office.
Nineteenth Amendment ratified giving women the right to vote (1920) was a major event for his presidency. -
Warren G. Harding
Harding officially opposed entry into the League of Nations (1921).
World War I was formally ended by joint resolution (1921). US, France, Great Britain, Japan, and Italy sign an agreement to limit naval armaments (1922) -
Calvin Coolidge
During his time in office the Immigration Act of 1924 came into effect.
Also the Revenue Acts of 1924 and 1926.
Charles Lindbergh make his historic transatlantic flight (1927).
